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QOOP

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QOOP Web-based remote print and publish. This looks pretty interesting. I saw a link to this on Caterina Fake's Flickr blog. Remote publishing of any digital file. Am thinking this might be interesting for school. We could create books and photo albums associated with school events and activities, and then make them available to familes for purchase. For an example take a look at the Flickr blog...

Wired Article About Wikipedia

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Wired 13.03: The Book Stops Here

Jimmy Wales wanted to build a free encyclopedia on the Internet. So he raised an army of amateurs and created the self-organizing, self-repairing, hyperaddictive library of the future called Wikipedia...

Now Wales has brought forth a third model - call it One for All. Instead of one really smart guy, Wikipedia draws on thousands of fairly smart guys and gals - because in the metamathematics of encyclopedias, 500 Kvarans equals one Pliny the Elder...

This month's Wired has a very good article about Wikipedia and some of the people who write the articles found there. I found the story of Einar Kvaran to be interesting and instructive about the authors and their motivations for writing for Wikipedia. According the article Kvaran is currently unemployed, but spends about six hours a day reading and writing about public art and sculpture and publishes his work in Wikipedia...

FlickrFox...

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Flickrfox is an extension for Firefox (version 1.0) that lets you browse your Flickr photostreams in a Firefox sidebar. You can choose streams to display including everyone's, friends and family, contacts and groups... Keep up with new photos while you work on the web...

(Via Lifehacker.)

The Gates Project: Installation Crew

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Gates Crew
Originally uploaded by timlauer.

The Gates Project
A lot being written and said about the Christo, Jeanne Claude installation in Central Park. From the New York Times today...

Even at first blush, it was clear that "The Gates" is a work of pure joy, a vast populist spectacle of good will and simple eloquence, the first great public art event of the 21st century. It remains on view for just 16 days. Consider yourself forewarned. Time is fleeting.

The Times also has a special section with all of its coverage. One of the parents from my school is in New York working on the project. She was part of an installation team.

In Motion: African American Migration Experience

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In Motion

A sweeping narrative from the transatlantic slave trade to the Western migration, the colonization movement, the Great Migration, and the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans. Told in historical texts, rare visual materials, and contemporary photo-journalism.

This site from the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture provides access to 8,300 images, 17,000 pages of texts and over 60 maps. In Motion focuses on the self-motivated activities of peoples of African descent to remake themselves and their worlds. Includes a section of educational materials for teachers and students.

A good example of an institution making their collections available to others through the web.

(Via Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report.)

Lydia's Poster

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Originally uploaded by lydiamaria.

My oldest daughter is a graphic design student at Seattle University. She uses Flickr to post some of her work. Her is a draft of a submission for one of her classes...

FlickrGraph

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Flickr Graph is a visualization tool that looks at the social relationships inside flickr.com. It lets you visually see contact connections between yourself and others. Type in a username and see a display of their contacts. Click on contact and see their connections. Another example of someone taking advantage of the API's built into Flickr.